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• A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

  Anthony Holden

  Couple, Book, Men

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• Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

  Sam Sheppard

  After Hours, Comeback, My Family

  Sam Sheppard (1966). “Endure and conquer”

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• That's not writing, that's typing

  Truman Capote

  Art, Writing, Entertainment

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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• Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.

  Eric Liu

  Commitment, Order, Indulge In

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• We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out.

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, Yield, Circles

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.49, Vintage

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• Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Unique, Hands

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

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• Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Goal, Action

  FaceBook post by Andy Andrews from Apr 14, 2017

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• Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my fans.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Judging, Fans

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• To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Praise, Virtue, Parliament

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• Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.

  Devin Nunes

  Suicide, Jumping, Lemmings

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

  George Santayana

  Confused, Lying, Competition

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

  William Blake

  Art, Ignorant, Individual

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.561, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.

  Jon Bernthal

  Reading, Thinking, Russia

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bernthal Talks WALKING DEAD Season Premiere, Theatre Background & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 16, 2011.

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• We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

  John Lithgow

  Should Have, Knowing, Charity

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Class, Names, Knowing

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.199

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• If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

  Juvenal

  Insults You, Insulted, Ought

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• My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

  George Washington

  Brave, Enemy, Satisfaction

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• Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Generations, May

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2011). “Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War”, p.131, Granta Books

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• I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Crush, Errors, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

  Margaret Deland

  Book, Sapphires, Reader

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• my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Taste, Facts

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• I don't want to get into an insult fight with Donald Trump.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Want, Trump

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You should not bear insults.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Bears, Should

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it.

  Jim Ross

  Wrestling, Long, Common Sense

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